The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-12

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lights. God draws q long mark OF
c.edit for services received. Chrlet
said to his disciples: "He that 70.
csiveth you, receiveth Me; and he that
giveth cup OF cold water In the name
Of q disciple shall In no wise lose bis
reward" As we have so many
things recorded against us In heaven,
il will be satisfaction TO have written
on unfailipg archives the fact that, Ia
the month OF May, or June, or Bsp.
TENDER, or December. 1887, We made
the blissful mistake OF supposing that
we we're entertaining weak men like
ourselves, when lol they showed their
pinions before they left, and We found
out tina! they were angels unswares.
Another reward comes In the good
Wishes and prayers Of our guests. do
not think ones house ever gets over
having had Q good man or woman
abide there. George Whiteheld used
to scratch nm the window OF the rom
wbsro he was entertained q passage OF
Scripture, and In one case, after he
left, the whole household was convert.
cd by the reading OF that passage on
the window pane. The woman Of Shu-
mem furnished little room over the
wall Tor Elisha. and oil the ages have
heard the glorious consequences. Ca
Q cold, stormy winter night my father
entertained Trueman Osborne, tbe
evangelist, and through all eternity /
will thank God that Trueman Osborne
stopped at our house. How many Of
our guests have brought to us condo.
lence, and sympathy, and helpl There
Ia q legend told OF 81. Ssbald, that In
his Christian rounds he used to stop
for entertainment at the house OF a
poor cartwright. Coming there one
day be found the cartwright and his
family freezing for the lack OF any fuel.
Vt. Sebald ordered the man 10 10 out
and break the icicles from the side Of
the house and bring them In, and the
iciClee we're brought into the houae
aud thrown on the hearth, and they
began 60 blRxs immediately, and the
freezing family gathered around and
were warmed by them. That was a 10.
gend; but how often have our guests
come In 10 gnther up tho cold,
freezing ooIrowB Of our life, kindling
them into illumination, aud warmth,
aud good cheer. He who opens bis
house 10 Christian hospitality turns
those who are strangers into friends.
Years will 20 by, and there will be
great changes In you, and there will
be great changes In them. Some day
you viii be sitting In loneliness,
watching q bereavement, aud you
will get letter in q strange hand.
writing. and you will look at the
postoffioe mark and ssy: "Why, I
don't know anybody living In that
city," and you will break the en-
vslope, and there you will read the
story OF thanks for your Christian
generosity long years before, and how
they have heard aiar of OF your
trouble. And the letter will be 60
full OF kindly "reminiscences and
Ohristlan condolence, IL will be q
plaster large enough to cover up all
the deep gashes Of your soul. When
We take people into our houses as
Christian guests, We take them into
our sympaihies forever. In bort,
Holland, q soldier with q sword
al his side stopped at house, desiring
lodging and shelter. The woman oil
the house al 6rqt refused admittance,
saying that the men Of the house we're
not nj home; hut when he showed
his credentials that he had been hon.
orably discharged from the army, he
was admitted and tsrried during tue
night. In tho night time there Was q
knocking at the front door, and two
run ans btoks In 10 despoil that house.
hold. No sooner bad they come over
the door ell than the armed guest,
who had primed his piece and charged
Il with sluga, met them, and telling
the woman TO stand back, l am happy
10 say, dropped tie two assaulting
dseperadoes dead vt his feet. Well,
nov there are no baudi,s proving
around 10 destroy our houses; but
how often II 10 that We fad those that
have boen ouf guel,s become our de.
tenders. We gave them shelter fret,
aud thsn aflerwsfd In the great con
hc,u OF lilo they fought for our repu'
tation, they fought Tor our properly
they iYught Tor our soul.
Another reward that comes from
Ohristian hospitality Is In the atsur.
snce that va shall have hospitality
shown 90 uH aud 20 ours. 10 the up
turning Of this liia who knows IN
what city % what land We may b.
thrown, aud how much We mag med
-. oman Ina,9 raata v,.ay anna M,
such crisis 10 us, bat our children
may DO ihrown into some such strait
He who Ia In a Christian manner
hoepitable has q free pass through all
chHstondom. IL NAV be that you
will have bean dead hity years be- JTe
any such stress shall come upon one
Of your descendants. but do you moi
su ppoae that God can remember Aily
yearsf aud the knuckle OF the grand
child will be heard against the door
OF some stranger, aad that DOR will
open, aud u will be talked over In
heaven, and II will be said: THAT
mans grandfather atty years ago gave
shelter 10 q stranger and now stran
gers door 10 open for q grandson"
Among the Greeks, after enteTtaln.
ing and being entertained, they take q
piece Of lead and Gu, II In two, and the
hos, takes one half q tho piece ol
lead and this guest takes the other
hall No they part. These two pieces
OF lead are handed down from genera
ton 10 generation, and from family "a
family; aud, after a while, perhaps
one Of the families In want or IN
trouble 20 out with this one piece o.
lead and lod the other family witt
the CORE ponding plecs Of lead, and
no sooner 10 The tally complsted than
the old hosplt lily Ia aroused aud
elernsl friendship pledged. So the
memory q Christian Hospitality will
20 down rom generation TO genera
ton, and from family 10 iAmily, aud
tho tally will uevsr bs Loot, neither In
this world nor the world 10 come.
Mark ibis; tie day will come when
VIZ vii all be turned out OF doors With.
ont any exception, bare foot, bare head
no water In the canteen, no bread In
tho havafeask, aud w will 20 In thaI
way lotto the future world. Aud |
wonder u eternal Inequalities will
open before m, aud Il We will be re.
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